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Word: cupful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time since 1931, Adams House entered the finals in intramural basketball last night at the IAB. And for the first time ever, if came away with the title, a 58-40 pasting of defending Straus Cup champion Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House Wins Hoop Title From Straus Champion Lowell | 3/14/1975 | See Source »

...close to a first-class resort as a poor person is ever likely to encounter. The other patients-comic in some instances, tragic in others-are all helpful in drawing her out of her anxious reserve. A decent, quiet-spoken young mechanic (Daniel Quenaud), who bought her a comforting cup of coffee when they met at the clinic back home, now offers her the possibility of a gentle romance unlike anything she has ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Quiet Ending | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...before you can reserve your subway fare, balcony seat, cup of beer and pizza slice at the Garden. Harvard, seeded on top, has to escape Clarkson, the eighth seed, in Watson Rink tonight as the ECAC tournament quarterfinals get underway at four different collegiate ice palaces. Across the river second seed Boston University hosts seventh-seeded Brown, and up north third-seeded Vermont entertains sixth-seed Providence, while fourth-seeded Cornell invites fifth-seeded New Hampshire into the makepit known as Lynah Rink...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: ECAC Predictions | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

...league in shutouts (twelve), and had the lowest goals-against average per game (1.89). In the playoffs he shut down the high-scoring offenses of New York and Boston, and helped the Flyers to make hockey history by becoming the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. For his extraordinary performance, Parent was named playoff Most Valuable Player. This year, with the season two-thirds completed, Parent is once again setting the pace for goalies with nine shutouts and a goals-against average of 2.01. Even after a recent letdown, the Flyers own first place in their division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courage and Fear in a Vortex of Violence | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...prepares carefully for every game with a psyching-up ritual that begins on the eve of the game. Before home games he sits alone in the family room for more than an hour under a miniature replica of the Stanley Cup, thinking about opposition players and the moves he may have to make to block their shots. Then after half a dozen or so beers, he retires for eight hours of sleep. On the day of the game, he enjoys a steak for lunch and then returns to sleep. He likes the family German shepherd Tinker Bell to nap with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courage and Fear in a Vortex of Violence | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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